Special Study Expert Committee on Rape, a wing of National Commission for Women (NCW), convened a Joint Consultative Seminar and Gender Sensitisation initiative in association with Railway Protection Force (RPF), Northern Railway at India International Centre.
The seminar was attended by Sreerupa Mitra Chaudury, Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar, Shamina Shafiq, Kumari Hemlata Kheria, Members/NCW. The seminar was chaired by Mamta Sharma, Chairperson of National Commision for Women.
Anand Vijay Jha gave a presentation on the participation of women in RPF. At present the representation of women in RPF is about 1.7 per cent. Chairperson NCW described the object of the seminar in detail and emphasised the need of sensitisation of law Enforcing Agencies to protect and safeguarding the modesty of women travelling or working in Railways. She stressed that women may be treated at par with man respectfully. She elaborately described the position of women in society and the evils prevailing in the society. The law Enforcing Agencies should act proactively for the cause of women. She expressed a view that vigilant RPF can do a lot to prevent and detect trafficking of women since Railway is frequently used as a mode of transport for trafficking of women and children. IG cum CSC/RPF has stressed that apart from ensuring security and safeguarding the modesty of women RPF should proactively act for the cause.
Jitender Srivastava stressed that such type of seminars are proved to be a re-orientation training to refresh.